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Welcome to the latest boating season of the mighty First Forty. Ive blogged many of our seasons and this one is a definite. We took a long hiatus from using the boat due to our relocation. But with the new home settled it was time to 'wake up' Art (the plastic parrot) and the FF. So here we go.

Many of you have said you liked the real world gritty writing style where I give you the good, bad and ugly of living on a small ...

Welcome to the latest boating season of the mighty First Forty. I've blogged many of our seasons and this one is a definite. We took a long hiatus from using the boat due to our relocation. But with the new home settled it was time to 'wake up' Art (the plastic parrot) and the FF. So here we go.

Many of you have said you liked the real world information about cruising under power where I give you the good, bad and ...

We left Myrtle hoping to avoid the "Severe Thunderstom" warnings.   We beat the storms for awhile but by 9:00 P.M. they had caught up with us.  Since we never got to even wash the salt and sand off we decided to hook up at a camp in Cuttrick Sound NC.  About 20 miles from the border of NC/VA.  It turned out to be worth it because of the breathtaking scenery.  About 7 miles inland but by the ocean ...

Today was our last day in Corolla. Yesterday the weather went stormy so we went to the local movie theater to see Pixar's Up! Because there are so few people out here, the movie theater is small and did not show the movie in its 3-D form. It didn't even matter! The movie was spectacular. I have given up on adult movies. It seems rare that most regular films even compare to children's movies. After the ...

Today marked our 3rd full day at the Outer Banks. I become so lazy when I'm on vacation. I find myself taking naps constantly as if doing nothing is exhausting. Yesterday we went out to get Brandon some skim board wax. We found some at a bait and tackle shop of all places. While there I also found something that was a blast from my past. I don't know if anyone remembers mood changing lipstick but I used to be in love with it. So imagine my excitement when I ...

Today was our first day of vacation. The apartment we are staying at has a blender so we were able to make a green smoothie for breakfast. Its been so long since we've made a smoothie in a blender other than our high powered vitamix. Lets just say we had to chew our smoothie. No biggie, a chewy green smoothie is better than no green smoothie. Next we had to go find a pharmacy ...

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Whilst wandering along the Wharf we were struck by how dark the water looked no beautiful blue waters here. On inspection it appeared almost black so we decided to collect some in an empty water bottle so we could ...

Left Hospital point anchorage, Norfolk at 0800 Oct 30th and made the several bridges on schedule until we got to Gilmerton bridge which would would not open because the Norfolk and Southern rail road bridge was down. Eventually about eleven boats were all held up next to a large ship loading scrap metal. The rail road bridge eventually went up with no train appearing and the Gilmerton bridge opened. We had been leaning to going down the ...

... to work on email and in general enjoying the beautiful day. For the last five days, we had been in shorts and T-shirts with temperatures in the mid 70's (22-25C). When I phoned my father that morning, I was told that snow had arrived in Sudbury and out west there was so much snow the plows were out. In the evening, we all attended the party on main street and then at 9:30 watched from the front row seats of our boats an excellent fireworks display in the harbour. It certainly ...